High kernel latency all windows.....

[76561198252596426]

First let me start off by plz aking for only HW gurus no trolls plz even if u are a guru this is serious stuff most ppl cannt even diagnose. HW is my expertise thats all I can say anyways.

I can not post full HW specs for security reasons... but benchmarks pass fine score like they should and sfc passes in last 3 wins 7,8.1 an d10......

Problem started and now I now pinpointed it after a day or two of 12 hours nonstop work on this hunk of metal.

Now in CS GO, im getting HIGH CLIENT SIDE VAR spikes every 10 sec to 5 or even 10 which makes it unplyable for me, even though fps is fine and ping.

I did basic troubleshooting, turn off HPET, run system at no OC defaults, still same problem, all I changed was video,SSD and mobo. Mobo is same model just RMAed, SSD is on its way, using 10 year old regular SATA HDD but that SHOULD NOT BE CAUSING THIS despite its slowness, and the mobo as far as im concerned is direct from the manufacturer....

So I narrowed it down by strict hardware tests, latency check and no not sound DPC latency which passes. Using Latencymon tool in the kernel latency test is where It pops up red bars with almost 6 digit micro second latency mesesured, it said files producting it are mixed, everything from dx dlls to sound dlll to NDIS dll to not AMD SATA driver cause thats gone, basic MS SATA AHCI AND STORPORT MS DRIVER ARE CAUSING THIS.

Im tired i DO NOT WORK IN THIS INDUSTRY ANYMORE. Sorry if im ranting but im a little annoyed after 2 days of irrelevant work which I have not got a result yet out of. I have pinpointed this problem now I need to solve it.

Any HW gurus do you have any IDEAS?

[PLANTROON]

I'd suggest reseating (unplugging and plugging in again) all the components in the case.

An old SATA HDD can pretty much break the whole OS. Windows can be frozen up by a broken disc in the DVD ROM drive. With even slightest bug in system drive it can misbehave easily.

What would help if you don't want to share the system specs is how exactly the thing behaves. Also, any other games where this happens ?

[76561198252596426]

Originally posted by PLANTROON:

I'd suggest reseating (unplugging and plugging in again) all the components in the case.

An old SATA HDD can pretty much break the whole OS. Windows can be frozen up by a broken disc in the DVD ROM drive. With even slightest bug in system drive it can misbehave easily.

What would help if you don't want to share the system specs is how exactly the thing behaves. Also, any other games where this happens ?

Already reseated everything including swapping video with an old pos I have laying around. No disk is borken in optical drive, and it happens whether there is disk in there or not my friend.

This is happening after clean not formats but nuking HDD and resinstalll of last 3 versions of windows everything updated new drivers old drivers all I can try.

This not about trying a video game anymore my friend, the problem has been pinpointed with latencey mon, thats all I need to run. Now Im begining to suspect either CPU firmware infection to cause these interupts or mobo BIOS infection.......

Please tell it is something other.....

[Tywin]

Sounds to me like you have a modified copy of a critical file, check dates and sizes vs known good files, most likely a library. Thats my guess. Have you swapped cpu's?

[PLANTROON]

I didn't mean that optical drive is causing your problem, I was just using it to describe how bad Windows handles disk drives (I threw away my optical drive long time ago and I don't ever want to have any external media used in my PC other than backup external drive - biggest security threat for PC imho). So what I mean is, you could try a different HDD or wait for the SSD to come?
Maybe temporarily try a different OS (it's easy to get hands on Linux and just try it out off a small partition)
Anyways, what are your latency mon results?

[76561198252596426]

Originally posted by PLANTROON:

I didn't mean that optical drive is causing your problem, I was just using it to describe how bad Windows handles disk drives (I threw away my optical drive long time ago and I don't ever want to have any external media used in my PC other than backup external drive - biggest security threat for PC imho). So what I mean is, you could try a different HDD or wait for the SSD to come?
Maybe temporarily try a different OS (it's easy to get hands on Linux and just try it out off a small partition)
Anyways, what are your latency mon results?

I have linux puppy and parted magic live run in ram disks, if there is a terminal command for running in linux a latency test outside windows, plz tell me, I am not software guru and linux only know the basics.

Originally posted by Kinja Kahn:

Sounds to me like you have a modified copy of a critical file, check dates and sizes vs known good files, most likely a library. Thats my guess. Have you swapped cou's?

Yes I understand what you mean, which means infection...... Thing is the 3 windows I have only 2 are iso downloaded from ms yes real iso not torrent pwned stuff. Real ISO legit but just not activiated with MS yet till I solve this.

Now if by any chance these isos had something planted "on the way here" or they somehow modified slight code when already on my drive I do not know......

But no I used an original MS disk of windows 7 not a burned disk same problem. So if this is an infection it is indeed stuck in a firmware somewhere...... And yes the windows 7 disk install was clean ethernet UNPLUGGED, nothing online nada nothing installed yet straight after the win 7 first boot I ran latency mon again same thingso....

Not swap CPU yet, im tired and do not want to do elbow grease now of removing special cooling. Although I do have an older same socket CPU laying around. Id rather wait for the SSD first like friend above says

Btw plan yes I know what you mean by optical being security risk, but always you can have BIOS admin pass, I would worry more about putting superglue on USB ports then an optical.... You are talking about physical security I am not worried about that for that this is a "bunker".....

[76561198252596426]

If it is infection I have my suspicions of two different partys, dont worry little demons, you already are in our crosshairs all of you. :)

[Silicon Vampire]

I've seen similar issues when a interface on a CD/DVD/HD was going bad... most times, it was the CD/DVD electronics in the drive itself.